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Original Goosebumps Series

The original series was created in 1992 with the publication of Welcome to Dead House. The series was a surprise hit, at one point selling over a million books a month. Originally, they were thought to be "too scary" for children. A new book came out every month, and by the end of its run, had published three spin off book series' and sixty-two books in the original series.

Tim Jacobus drew the covers for three of the books, and posted them on his website and other marketing sites. They were to be released in 2001. However, the books themselves were never written due to a contract expiration between R.L. Stine and Scholastic. The books were never released, although the covers are still up on Tim Jacobus's website. The books involved a sequel to The Haunted Mask II, a sequel to Welcome to Dead House, an unreleased Goosebumps Series 2000 book, and a sequel to Slappy's Nightmare. Slappy New Year was released as a Goosebumps Horrorland book, suggesting that, maybe Stine will recycle the ideas into Horrorland.

Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition

Special Edition books were more challenging and featured playing with dice and picking inventory before reading that could either help you or not. They featured subtitles such as "power play" or "the ultimate challenge". All of them are now out of print.

More & More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

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Three Shocking Tales of Terror, Book 1

Ghost Granny - A girl who hates her nasty, old grandma is happy when she finally dies. But the grandma doesn't want to go, and comes back as a ghost to haunt her, ending with the granny being vanquished but still managing to invite ghouls to the girls home.

Spin the Wheel of Horror - A game show where the contestants are meant to be terrified by the fake monsters on a show. Turns out the family of contestants are hiding a secret...

Teenage Sponge Boys from Outer Space - two evil space aliens crash on earth and demand the assistance of some students.

Three Shocking Tales of Terror, Book 2

Ghoul School - A boy goes to a new school.....filled with monsters!

The Revenge - A girl looking to get back at a boy who torments her in school is given the power of astral projection (in which a person can detach his or her "soul" from his or her body)

The Mummy with My Face - A boy discovers that an ancient mummy has stolen his identity.

Goosebumps Monster Edition

These are hardcover books, each containing reprints of three books from the original series. They are out of print.

Goosebumps Monster Edition #1

Welcome to Dead House

Stay Out of the Basement

Say Cheese and Die!

Goosebumps Monster Edition #2

Night of the Living Dummy

Night of the Living Dummy II

Night of the Living Dummy III

Goosebumps Monster Edition #3

The Ghost Next Door

Ghost Beach

The Barking Ghost

Goosebumps Fright Light Edition

Welcome to Camp Nightmare

The Horror at Camp Jellyjam

Ghost Camp

Goosebumps Collection

Like the Goosebumps Monster Edition books, these are hardcover books, the first three of which contain reprints of three books from the original series. The fourth is 30 Tales to Give You Goosebumps, which contains the first three books in the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series.

The series is complemented by companion websites. The website EnterHorrorLand.com is a "gameplay experience which immerses fans in HorrorLand itself"which opened on on February 20, 2008. The website EscapeHorrorLand.com is a "serialized, story-driven, fact-finding experience" hosted by the protagonists of One Day at Horrorland.

In May 2010, Stine revealed that he was going to write six more books in the series, bringing the total to twenty-five.

The second series of reprints, issued alongside the Goosebumps HorrorLand series. Unlike the first series, which were almost identical to the original editions (with a few exceptions), these editions feature brand new cover designs and contain special bonus material, including interviews with the author.